Hillary Announces NO Public Financing for Her Campaign. Cafferty says Big IOU Coming

Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 03:21 PM by KoKo01

on Inauguration if other Candidates follow her lead and he's hearing that they will. Even John McCain is saying his "campaign finance reform hasn't worked," according to Cafferty.

So, our Candidates don't even need the $1.00 we check off on our tax returns. All the financing they need is from the Corporations and Special Interest Groups.

Amazing they are admitting it upfront. Guess they don't even care about all those IOU's that will be coming due. And another Imperial President can have "secret meetings" with Big Interests and never reveal it...since Cheney set the precedent with Enron and Big Oil setting our Energy and probably "War Policy."

15. My friend's mom used to say, "If wishes were fishes, we'd have a fish fry."

Since over 90% of congressional races are won by the candidate who spends the most money, and the incumbant has a clear fund raising advantage over a challenger, why would an incumbant want to damage their own advantage to be re-elected by leveling the playing field?

It isn't as hard to get incumbents to act in the party's interest when it goes against their own as you might think. When Republicans redistrict, for example, they generally make their incumbents less safe in order to gain more seats on the whole.

Given the Corporate/Special Interests...what does it matter if I give to what the MSM calls the "Quixotic P-Candidate Kucinich, or the unknown Vilsak?"

If only the MEDIA FRONTRUNNERS like Hillary and Biden and Dodd on the Dem side can get funding from the Corporate/Special Interests what does that mean to the Grassroots who can only donate a Dollar or Two or a Hundred or maybe 200.00?

When they only have to go out and appear to their BIG DONORS (flying in on Campaign Donated Special Planes by the Corporatists) and being escorted to the BIG HOUSE where the SPECIAL DONORS have Catered Appetizers and folks have written "under the law" donations...how do "WE, THE PEOPLE" ever HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE? HOW?

32. Howard Dean on Tweety just did an announcement that he took Corporate Funds!

Dean Admitted that he took Corporate Funds and was the FIRST TO DO SO...according to the "Campaign Finace Laws." He said "Until Publick Financing of Elections" can be put in place ..."We Dems have to take what's available to compete."

DEAN said: "I'm totally in favor or Public Financing of our Elections...but until we get that...we need to compete."

By accepting those funds for the primary and/or general election, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. One of the reasons why Kerry was able to stay competitive with Bush in 2004, despite Bush's colossal warchest, was because he opted out of federal matching funds (he did this right after Dean announced he would do it during the primaries, as a way to stay competitive with Dean.) Unless you make federal matching funds mandatory, then they are useless.

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